Mark and I were attending a super-secret meeting of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy last night and were thus unable to live-blog any of the festivities occuring yesterday on Election Day, but there are a few items that I wanted to hit...AP News Alert:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Democrat Steve Beshear has won the Kentucky governor's race, defeating Gov. Ernie Fletcher.This is what would have happened in Ohio if Taft had run again. Or Jim Petro. Or Betty Montgomery. My point is this: when the central issue of the campaign is "culture of corruption", the GOP loses; and will continue to lose until knuckleheads like Ernie Fletcher are thrown out of the party when they engage in bad behavior.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has won a second term, defeating Democratic challenger John Arthur Eaves Jr.This is what happens when "culture of corruption" issues aren't the main issue of the campaign. Seems like there might be a lesson in these two stories that the GOP ought to learn...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Voters have rejected a $450 million stem cell research plan that was one of the most ambitious efforts to publicly fund such work.New Jersey isn't exactly Red State America, if'n ya catch my drift... This stem cell research funding issue ought to be put to bed for good now...
LATTA WINS! ONN has this story, but I'll agree with NixGuy on this one:
In what is now becoming a routine occurrence in Ohio Republican primaries, the candidate opposed by the Club for Growth wins.This race got unneccessarily silly...let's hope that there wasn't sufficient damage done that we end up losing the seat.
For candidates, remember this the next time you get all happy about all the money the CfG is helping you with. If pushed I probably would have ended up voting for Buehrer, but both of these guys seem conservative enough for me from this distance.
UTAH VOUCHERS DOWN IN FLAMES. It looks like Utah has choosen not be a pro-choice state.
Mark's Remarks
Looks like the so-called Rock Star is now 0-for-3...not so influential anymore, I guess???? Just putting it out there.
MORE LATER...
